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Meet up with Montana Linux people on IRC. We currently gather at the #ubuntu-montana room on the freenode network. Stop in and say "hello" or even ask/answer some questions. Don't have to be a Ubuntu user either. Or use the web-based chat client.

BillingsLUG
The BillingsLUG hasn't had a meeting in a while but they are hoping to start back up real soon. Really.

BozemanLUG
The BozemanLUG meets on the FIRST Thursday of the month at 7PM

MSU-Bozeman
EPS Building, Rm 259
Bozeman, MT
Used to be the LAST Thursday, but we changed it.

Cool Gear

Needing Help with Nvidia Drivers for ubuntu

My name is Duane, I'm new to the whole linux, ubuntu, working with my hardware stuff. I have a laptop with Nvidia video card. I'm looking for any drivers so that it will work to it's full potential. the hardware driver gives me the driver 173 and 177 but neither seem to want to install properly. so please

Who sells Matrox graphics cards these days? I can remember one mob that sold them a few years ago, but not the company name. Need to price up a Matrox Triple head for my old man's new office. Preferably pick-up today. Cheers.

seriously... wow.
so, don't offer so much information about your system that there's no way not to help...
if you want assistance, why not tell us what kind of card you have? Have you heard of lspci? Look up the manual page on it if not. that would be 'man lspci' Oh.. right, it's in a console, so, there's no need of that pointy-clicky thing.

I'll give you an example:
I typed lspci -v in a console... among many other things, I got this:

We can see that I have an ATI vid card in a toshiba laptop with 128m ram on. You can also tell that I have my vid card sorted. However, i didn't do that, the rockin people that built ubuntu (in my case I use linux mint) did. Now, you must understand, I've used many a nVidia, and Ati, a few matrox cards, etc. We all started somewhere. Just please... next time you ask a question, lose the emotion and give us facts that matter.

Thanks for the info. yes i guess i did grow up on a GUI I have used windows all my life. but now i'm trying to better myself and your comments aren't helping so next time if you don't have any constructive help don't bother responding. Thanks